Especially when the other half of the pairing is a useless, unemployed lump with no discernible skill and even less personality.

So you can imagine the strain placed on the recent engagement between Calgary actress Elisha Cuthbert and Toronto Maple Leafs captain and human rutabaga Dion Phaneuf as a result of the current NHL lockout.

He, sitting at home, staring at the microwave, wondering why it won’t play his stories.

She, at work, “acting” in a middling sitcom named Rub ‘n’ Tug or Hot Lunch or whatever it’s called.

It must be tearing the Alberta powercouple apart, what with all of the arguments about money and bills and “first socks, then shoes.”

Granted, last year Dion earned a whopping $6.5 million helping lead his team (into the parking lot, where they got in their cars and drove directly to the golf course), and she presumably earns a hefty salary wearing clothes and moving her mouth.

But sadly, his addictions (Tonka trunks and lead paint potato prints) will likely burn through that at a fair pace.

Perhaps that’s why Cuthbert used some of that prairie gal spirit and got herself a second job “acting” in a music video for New Jersey rockers The Gaslight Anthem’s latest single Here Comes My Man.

The clip features the “actress” fighting with her boyfriend, seeking solitude inside of a movie theatre and then climbing into the romcom onscreen (think The Last Action Hero, except even duller) only to discover her true love is waiting outside the theatre with flowers (spoiler alert: she walks past him and you won’t really care by that point).

The song, itself, is typically great Gaslight, while the video is, well, typical.

Watch for yourself.

And think only good thoughts for Elisha and her man. Whichever one that might be.

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